Apple’s certainly no stranger to speech recognition, nevertheless it looks as if it may well have enlisted a bit outside help for a higher version of OS X, otherwise referred to as Lion . As Netputing reports, among the text-to-speech voice options available within the developer preview of Lion simply so happen to check the voices available from Nuance — which might appear to suggest a partnership or licensing agreement of a few sort, because the voices themselves cost $45 apiece directly from Nuance. In somewhat related news, Apple has also recently filed a patent application that might bring some fairly extensive new speech recognition options to the iPhone — if it ever actually moves beyond a patent application, it truly is. Briefly, it’d allow you to either instantly have a phone call converted to text, or send some text and feature it converted to voice at the other end — which the applying notes could come in useful both in noisy environments or in situations where you just aren’t ready to talk. It should even apparently incorporate a noise meter that can automatically trigger various options when the ambient noise hits a definite level. Hit up the source link below for a better take a look at the way it would work.
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Read4Me is a simple program that works well with the multilingual voices in Lion Developer preview 3, as well as with third party voices from vendors like Cepstral and Infovox. With save-to-audiobook and the Voice Coach, this app is well-equiped for the Lion update and it is a great writers’ tool as it opens MS Word documents and reads them out loud. Localized in 6 languages this will bring the power of MacinTalk to Europe.
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